I think there would still be an inner alignment problem even if deceptive models were in fact always more complicated than non-deceptive models—i.e. if the universal prior wasn’t malign—which is just that the neural net prior (or whatever other ML prior we use) might be malign even if the universal prior isn’t (and in fact I’m not sure that there’s even that much of a connection between the malignity of those two priors)
Agree.